FreeBSD filesystem performance in Enterprise

[Derrick Ryalls]

> Curious how FreeBSD ffs performs in Enterprise-level 
> environments (ie: 
> email stores that send 100's of thousands of messages per  
> day) versus 
> other filesystems like XFS (I heard thre's a port going on for 
> FreeBSD..?), ReiserFS, et al.   Is there a FAQ that covers 
> some of this 
> and the various tuning issues one might consider (filesystem and 
> kernel).   This applies either disk-alone or across a raid array, 
> etc.    I'm interested in hearing others experiences (good and bad).
> 
> 

You are almost starting a holy war  :)

I believe hotmail used to be hosted on FreeBSD until it was bought out by
MS, that should be a decent volume indicator.

I run a very small email list server and it works fine on a p200.  I did see
a noticable jump in speed when I switched the mail service from sendmail to
qmail, so it is also dependant on what you will run.